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Marie Christine Katz | b. 1960 (Ayer, Switzerland) mck@mariechristine.com

2025-Performed: Let’s Take a Walk #63 (Lets Take a Walk to the Voting Booth) Hangers 101 and a Litany of Hashtags.Work in Progress and My Favorite Grandmother. Group exhibition, The sound of Silence, group exhibition at LichtundFire Gallery, NYC.

2024- Performed at Five Myles Gallery Brooklyn, Exhibition and performance at The Rumanian Cultural Institute.                                                                                                                  Exhibition and performance at EnTransito San Antoni Spain. Hangers 101 & a Litany of Hashtags Cautionary Tale and Rewind presented at White Box Gallery. My Favorite Grandmother and #DancingAlonewithmyShadow performed at various venues.

2023 – Ongoing performance @DancingAlonewithmyShadow, Let’s Take a Walk . Upcycling workshops, @mck_workinprogress,                                                                                           Blitz Gallery, Toronto, Jane Street NYC. Mary’s Salon NYC, White Box NYC,

 2022 – Ongoing performance @DancingAlonewithmyShadow, Let’s Take a Walk and Upcycling Workshops @mck_workinprogress

 2021 – #Dancingalonewithmyshadow Paterson NJ Let’s Take a Walk #54 at Tanja Grunert Gallery, Kingston NY. Continuous Performances online @DancingAlonewithmyShadow and LTAW. Upcycling @mck_workinprogress

 2020 – Hangers 101 & a Litany of Hashtags, Plaxall Gallery LIC + Blue Spirit, Nicoya, Costa Rica. – What’s my Worth? Part of Session Live/Zoom – Let’s Take a Walk #41-49, Twitter and Instagram. #42 at Skoll World Forum.

 2019 – Work in Progress’ Workshop, Fountain House Gallery, New York, NY – Hangers 101 & a Litany of Hashtags, Local Project, LIC –                                                                                     Let’s Take a Walk #38-40, Climate Strike March, New York, NY + Pope, L and LMCC. Conquest, New York, NY + Women’s March, New York, NY.

 2018 – Hangers 101 & a Litany of Hashtags, New York Studio School Gallery, New York, NY + Bergen Art Festival, Bergen, Norway + Glass House Gallery New York, NY – Let’s Take a Walk #37, Nicosia Art Festival, Nicosia, Cyprus.

 2017 – Moments, Love Apple Art Space, Ghent, NY + Ivy Brown Gallery, New York, NY – Let’s Take a Walk #36, Women’s March, Washington DC.

 2016 – What’s my Worth? Solo Exhibition, Ivy Brown Gallery, New York, NY.

 2015 – Itinerant, The Bronx Museum, New York, NY – What’s my Worth? LMCC Grant Performance, New York, NY. Let’s Take a Walk #34-35, International Day of Non-Violence, New York, NY + The Northside Art w/ Consulate General of Switzerland, New York, NY – Let’s Take a Walk…I Need You, Solo Exhibition, Chashama Gallery, New York, NY – What’s my Worth? IRT Theatre, NYSS Alumni Show, New York, NY +Five Myles Gallery, New York, NY.

 2014 – Creative Climate, The Human Impact Institute, Performance, New York, NY + Dumbo Arts Festival,                                                                                                                       Performance, New York, NY – Let’s Take a Walk #33, People’s Climate March, New York, NY. Performance, Dixon Place, New York, NY.                                                                  Performance, The Old Stone House, New York, NY.

 2013 – MAPnificient, Bronx River Art Center, New York, NY – Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival, Performance, New York, NY +                                                                            Figment Festival, Performance, New York, NY – How Much Do I Owe You? No Longer Empty, Performance, New York, NY –                                                                                                            Let’s Take a Walk #31-32, Brooklyn Utopias in TRANSITion, New York, NY. Performance + Installation, De_Tour at Local Project, New York, NY.

2012 – Frankenstein on the Beach, White Box, New York, NY. – MAPnificent: Artists Use Maps, New York Public Library, New York, NY –                                                                       Performance, Not Otherwise Specified, Space on White, New York, NY – Itinerant, Performance, Floor 4 Art, New York, NY – Let’s Take a Walk #25-30, Velada Santa Lucia, Performance, Maracaibo, Venezuela + Art in Odd Places Festival, Performance, New York, NY.

 2011 – Let’s Take a Walk #22-24, Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park, New York, NY + Nuit Blanche, Performance,                                                                                                                      Galerie Les Salaisons, Paris, France. Art Omi, Ghent, NY – The Cup Project, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA –                                                                                                          Transmodern Festival, Performance, Baltimore, MD – Unraveling, The Field: Emerging Artist                                                                                                                                                                      Residency Showcase, The Kitchen, New York, NY – TPS Reports: Performance Documents, SpaceCamp MicroGallery, Indianapolis, IN.

1994 – 2010 Highlight- Brief Encounter, New Town, Curate NYC, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY – Let’s Take a Walk #7-21,Distance Art Festival, Performance, London, England + Figment Festival, Performance, Brooklyn Utopia,The Old Stone House, New York, NY + Rally to Restore Sanity, Washington DC – Slide Slam, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT – Three-Minute Film Festival, Mishawaka, Let’s Take a Walk #1-6, Interactive Twitter- Guided Walk/Performance (Ongoing) – DAC Art Under the Bridge Festival, Performance, New York, NY Kurye International Video Festival, Istanbul, Turkey – Figment Festival, Performance, New York, NY – Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, Seoul, S. Korea – For Your Lines Only, Micro Museum, New York, NY _ New Life Festival, Berlin, Germany – Studio Invitation, Exit Art, L’Eau et les Reves, Galerie Kamchatka, Paris, France – The Cup Project, Exit Art, New York, NY + The Silk Factory, Union City, NJ.Exhibited at Hunter/Time Square Gallery, New York, NY. – Galerie Duque and Pirson, Brussels, Belgium. – Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, NY. – LMCC, New York, NY. – Berkshire Museum of Art, Pittsfield, MA. –ISELP, Brussels, Belgium. – Marymount Manhattan College Gallery, New York, NY. – Queen Council on the Arts, New York, NY. – Wooloo, Berlin, Germany

RESIDENCIES x AWARDS x GRANTS

2015 – LMCC Manhattan Community Arts Fund (MCAF) Grant 2011 – Artist-in-Residence, Art Omi, Ghent, NY. – Artist-in-Residence, The Field, New York, NY.

BIBLIOGRAPHY Emergency Index: Documenting Performance Annually, 2011, “What’s My Financial Worth?”, ITCH, Online Issue 3, 2009. Robert, Jonny. Sur les Chemins de Manhattan, 2007 PerFORMance over Function, 2005. Lexususpectus on Walking, 2005, Published Das Gesetz des Wassers and The Blade of Words, two book of Poems by Anca Stuparu and Photos by Marie Christine Katz.

Links, Blogs and Social Media handles.

www.mariechristine.com Twitter X @mcayer ( Let’s Take a Walk)  Instagram @mcayer27 ( platform for Hangers 101 & a Litany of Hashtags) @mck_workinprogress Features up–cycling project & workshops. @DancingAloneWithmyShadow Performance started during the pandemic, ongoing. @LetstakeaWalk_World ( Live Let’s Take a Walk)                                                                                                                                     Blogs Let’s Take a Walk My Favorite Grandmother Work in Progress Your Haiku